Artefact Kinds: Ontology and the Human-made World

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One way to address such questions about artifact kinds is to look for clues in the available literature on parallel questions that have been posed with respect to kinds in the natural domain. Philosophers have long been concerned with the ...

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Thomas A. C. Reydon
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